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The thing with Torchwood is abbreviating it TW is almost always right. There's a lot of episodes about suicide, there's plural episodes about rape, deliberately or otherwise, and this one features both. So when I started my rewatch I didnt get very far, stalled on this one.

But I'd decided to watch Torchwood before Jack comes back on Doctor Who, so I tried again today.

It is very dark.

So I kind of bounced out of paying attention. Played match things games on the comouter while it was on. Got distracted by how uneven their skin looks in HD when they were the first show to play with the cameras. They look very human compared to current standards.

Also there's a bit at Jack's desk at the end and the sign behind him says
Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases

I can't decide if I need an icon of that or Do Not Want.



I think Torchwood has become one of those shows where I love the characters but the canon is... difficult. I'm just not often wanting to watch something that hits so many Nopes.


The plot was a good one thiugh. Went in the dark places and poked them with sharp things. Revealed character. Lots of good stuff.

Just a feels journey I do not want to take.

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Okay, this even-less-coherent-than-usual data flow brought to you by my predictable big headache and waiting for the painkillers to kick in, which thank goodness they now have. So, sleep.

I may regret any or all of this in the morning.

Oh blah, morning starts at 0645. I regret it already.
*headdesk*

Okay, I've been thinking about things structurally again. In Lit the other week we did an exercise where we asked what would change if we took one thing out, or changed one thing, or took away a character.
Characters have/are story functions. When novels are adapted for film often they take away characters, which leaves their functions to be redistributed to other characters. Which frequently annoys. Or those functions get left out entirely, which changes the story rather, which again annoys.

How this applies to Torchwood.
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As ever, no idea if I'm finding anything meaningful, just taking some ideas for a walk. I find it fun. There might be more fun later. Odds are I'll re-watch the ep again at some point. All this is from memory. Apparently this is what my brain does in its sleep.

I woke up... bugger, about an hour before I got up, but I'm having one of my deeply disinclined days. The sort where I'm all why bother, why move, why not just quit the course and read a lot of books and not have to leave the house ever again.
(Just to be clear, my agoraphobia has nothing to do with Dark Secrets. Just World Is Big. ;-) )
ANYways, what finally got me up is wanting to write down stuff about Torchwood.
And this lit stuff being all useful is just handy for the motivation.

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I'm still getting the feeling that this is a show I can get stuck in to for analysis and find meaningful data. I haven't felt the need to do that for new episodes since Angel finished, and I'm realising I'm a bit starved for it.

This is bloody good TV.
And still only just starting. In an ideal world this could in fact get better.

:-D

I really love this show. Dark and layered and all kinds of interesting.